Reflecting on the inescapablity of generational growing pains, a fatherless father works to connect with his adolescent son in Kevin Moffett’s tender, rousing novel "Only Son". Told in triptych form, the novel begins at the fracture... Read More

The world transforms around a strange, charismatic girl who was trained to keep her eyes on the skies in the bizarre, wondrous novel "The High Heaven". Orphaned when the cult she was raised in went out to meet alien angels and instead... Read More

An intrepid magician works to save a fellow student and the fate of magic itself in Molly O’Sullivan’s stunning fantasy novel "The Book of Autumn". Cella fled her alma mater in New Mexico, where students are taught to cast magic... Read More

Julie Marie Wade’s shrewd and winsome memoir Other People’s Mothers is about the gendered conventions of her 1980s and 1990s Seattle girlhood. Nine chapters, covering Wade’s life from the ages of six to thirteen, center... Read More

Efforts to increase voter turnout in Black communities are at the heart of the revealing political science text "Party at the Ballot Box". In 2020, COVID-19 and police brutality against Black communities necessitated Baltimore,... Read More

Syaman Rapongan’s compelling memoir is about colonialism and the willful love of one’s own culture. When Syaman Rapongan was a boy, he witnessed Japan and China colonize his home, Pongso no Tao. Despite these experiences of... Read More

A literary gyre with a small, religious Louisiana town at its center, "Sister Creatures", Laura Venita Green’s dazzling debut novel, follows the interconnected stories of haunted, hopeful women. Tess, ensconced in a longtime... Read More